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In June 2016 R/V Neil Armstrong traveled to the edge and slope of the continental shelf south of Cape Cod. The cruise was part of a series of trips deisgned…

WHOI scientist Anna Michel is developing new ways to measure gases in the air over long distances using a technique called laser spectroscopy. Some of the light from a laser is absorbed by…

Mike Dodge, husband of marine biologist Kara Dodge, prepares to attach a suction cup-mounted tag to the back of a leatherback sea turtle in waters near Cape Cod recently. Both…

WHOI geologist Maurice Tivey has an unusual speciality: He studies the magnetic properties of rocks. When volcanic magma solidifies, magnetic crystals form in rocks and become oriented in the direction…

Members of the Wampanoag tribal nation (foreground) welcome the crew from the Hōkūle’a at WHOI this summer. Hokule’a is a traditional Polynesian sailing canoe currently on a round-the-world tour to…

Large orange floats line the edge of the WHOI dock. In a couple of weeks, they’ll board the R/V Neil Armstrong bound for the Coastal Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory about…

The life cycle of eels still holds many mysteries for scientists. Eels are believed to mate and lay their eggs in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean—but no…

This 75 foot-long ship—one of the shortest in WHOI’s history—led quite a diverse life. Balanus was constructed in the early 1940s in Winthrop, Mass., less than 100 miles from her…

Ella Ruth Goodman, age 4, went on her first whale watch this summer in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and discovered another world beneath the waves. Her mother, Jessica,…

The human-occupied vehicle Alvin hitches a ride on a flatbed before being hoisted onto the WHOI-operated research vessel Atlantis in advance of an expedition this summer to explore the depths…

Sometimes studying the ocean requires that scientists take to the air, as physical oceanographer Steve Jayne did with the Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Jayne flew with aircraft commander Lt.…

WHOI research engineer Casey Machado works on Nereid Hybrid Tether (HT) during dock trials recently. The “hybrid” in Nereid HT’s name means the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) can either be…

The principal lecturers of the 2016 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program at WHOI were Peko Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Shelley, co-director…

Every summer, the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science. The students attend lectures by…

Each year, virtually all the marsh grass in coastal wetlands dies, but very little plant material remains buried in sediments. Understanding where this organic matter goes is an important part…

Oceanographers use tools ranging from simple nets to complex autonomous robots, but there are times when only a human presence in the ocean will suffice. WHOI diving safety officer Ed…

This Labor Day, a very satisfied team on R/V Neil Armstrong is headed to port after a successfully servicing moorings on the OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program) array…